Nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, janitors and cooks "are particularly vulnerable to wage violations," Mr. Stripling said.
In these situations, children and women are particularly vulnerable to rights violations, malnutrition and poverty-related disasters.
That so many of these accounts involve the sexual abuse of underage women, however, suggests there might be something particularly unique about the culture of American evangelicalism that leaves young women especially vulnerable to sexual violation.
The activists say those accused tend to be poor single mothers who are particularly vulnerable to the violation of basic rights, with cases often stemming from health professionals reporting suspected abortions to the police when the women were really seeking medical help after a spontaneous miscarriage.
"As a result," the office wrote, "the Wage and Hour Division may not be addressing the needs of workers most vulnerable to Fair Labor Standards Act violations".
"At the same time, racism and discrimination entrenched in most societies make indigenous people more vulnerable to human rights violations including torture and ill-treatment, 'disappearance' and unlawful killings," the group said in a statement.
For example, pregnant women remain vulnerable to legally sanctioned violations of their right to bodily integrity and legal autonomy, often unavoidably if they lack race and class privilege (Brown 1998).
That makes them vulnerable to small unethical violations that gradually build into unfathomable actions.
In both countries, the report says that people are left without legal status or protection and are vulnerable to human rights violations.
In the interim, "protracted statelessness and profound discrimination have made the [Rohingya] Muslim community particularly vulnerable to human rights violations," according to a final report on the situation by a UN fact-finding commission led by Kofi Annan.
